Ballywalter Primary School

Overview

This sustaining improvement inspection confirms that Ballywalter Primary School “continues to demonstrate a high level of capacity for sustained improvement in the interest of all the learners.” The report highlights the school’s successful integration of digital technology to support literacy and its effective initiatives to enhance pupils’ pastoral well-being.

Strengths

• Children displayed “confidence and enthusiasm” when using digital technology to support their learning across all observed lessons.
• Teachers possess a “collegiate understanding” of how to progressively integrate new technologies to purposefully develop literacy skills.
• Year 6 and 7 pupils “read fluently with appropriate pace” and discussed their reading preferences willingly.
• The school provides programmes that increase children’s “resilience, sense of self-worth and confidence,” evidenced by exemplary behaviour.
• Initiatives such as the ‘Happy to be Me’ programme are delivered effectively, with extended school funding used to train classroom assistants.

Areas to improve

The report identifies no significant areas for improvement.

Safeguarding

The school provided evidence that its safeguarding arrangements “reflect the guidance from the Department of Education.”